Demand Planning Executive
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Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL), a leading Indian home and personal care company, is hiring a Demand Planning Executive in Lagos. The full-time, on-site role supports the IBP/S&OP process, builds accurate demand plans by combining statistical forecasting with market and commercial insights, and drives consensus across Sales, Marketing, Finance and Supply Chain.
- Full-time, on-site role based in Lagos
- Contribute to the IBP/S&OP process and improve forecast accuracy and stability
- Translate market and business intelligence into a reliable demand signal
- Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Manufacturing and Supply Chain
- Maintain master data and system hygiene in planning systems
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Job Title: Demand Planning Executive
Job Type: Full-time (On-site)
Demand Planning Executive at Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL)
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Sep 21, 2026, 9:09 AM
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Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL) is the largest homegrown 'Home and Personal Care' company in India, with a turnover of more than 1.3 billion USD and growing at 25% + CAGR. We are constantly innovating to delight our consumers with more exciting, superior quality products at affordable prices.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Location: Lagos
Responsibilities
- The role will contribute to the IBP/S&OP process and continuously improve forecast accuracy, forecast stability and value-added planning across the business.
- The role is responsible for translating market and business intelligence into a reliable demand signal, driving consensus across Sales, Marketing, Finance and Supply Chain, and proactively identifying and managing demand risks and exceptions.
- To develop and maintain an accurate, unbiased and commercially realistic demand plan for the assigned portfolio by combining statistical forecasting with customer, consumer, market and commercial insights.
- Maintain Data and Systems:
- Create and maintain the appropriate master data in the planning systems in use, minimising errors, and avoiding duplication and obsolescence.
- Maintain system hygiene and health to ensure demand signals are not polluted, in close collaboration with Customer Services.
- Collate Information and Assumptions
- Ensure commitment from all functions, build and maintain good communication and collaboration both within Supply Chain and with Sales and Marketing, Manufacturing and Finance, according to the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) best practices.
- Capture, prioritize, analyze and input Marketing and Sales events; customer, consumer & competitor information; other external / internal trends and influences which impact demand.
- Manage Portfolio and Lifecycle:
- Effectively use all Demand Planning system functionality to enable an exception based management approach.
- Collaborate with Marketing and Sales by providing input on a regular basis regarding product launches, portfolio optimization, rationale of commercial decisions, promotions and customer behavior.
- Maintain the systems to reflect the lifecycle of products (predecessors, successors, temporary promotional variants.
- Develop and Maintain the Forecast:
- Ensure that business planning is operated at the correct level of aggregation (product hierarchy and time).
- Use appropriate statistical models and parameters, and enrich statistical forecasts to generate accurate base demand forecasts.
- Focus on and deliver a stable demand plan, but taking into account appropriately recent events, along with achievement of Demand Plan Accuracy (DPA), controlled variability of accuracy and no systematic bias.
- Generate and maintain a demand plan for a given portfolio of products, locations and/or customers, at the levels (product hierarchy and time) at which business decisions are taken.
- Reach Consensus through Alignment:
- Contribute to cross functional planning activities such as IBP and the Consesus Demand Planning Framework (CDP) according to Best Practice.
- Contribute to Customer Facing activities such as Collaborative Planning, Promotional Forecasting, ad hoc joint Supply Chain improvement projects as appropriate.
- Share and Publish the Forecast:
- Cascade knowledge of Best Practices and tools to other Demand Planners.
- Through systematic reporting, provision of links or ad-hoc reports and communications, ensure that Demand Plan information is available to internal business partners as required.
- Track and Manage Demand:
- Actively follow-up actual sales to customers and sell-out (POS) data to identify exceptional or unforecasted activities.
- Drive fast, appropriate actions to minimize the impact of deviations from the Demand Plan. Communicate these actions to stakeholders.
- Measure and Track Performance:
- Understanding of the impact of demand decisions on inventory, manufacturing capacity, customer service and working capital.
- Understanding of distributor/customer behaviour and its impact on demand patterns.
- Knowledge of Demand Nigeria FMCG market dynamics
- Implement improvements to Demand and Supply Planning processes and tools to deliver tangible
Benefits
(e.g. time savings, increased efficiencies).
Understanding of Nigerian FMCG demand drivers, market volatility, seasonality and channel dynamics.
Understanding of promotional, pricing, competitive and macroeconomic factors affecting demand.
Consistently improve Demand Plan Accuracy (DPA accuracy level and variability) and drive out systematic forecast bias through detailed analyses of past performance. Track errors using DP Reason Codes and maintain an efficient Learning Log.
Key Success Metrics and Demand Planning Scorecard
Forecast Accuracy by Category / Customer / SKU
Consensus Forecast Completion / Adherence
Promotion Forecast Accuracy
New Product Forecast Accuracy
Forecast Bias
Forecast Exception Resolution
Demand Plan Stability
Inventory / Service impact attributable to demand-planning decisions
Systematic Bias Indicator (SBI)
Forecast Error / MAPE or agreed company methodology
Demand Plan Accuracy (DPA)
Forecast Value Added (FVA)
Requirements
Education
&
Experience
analysing demand deviations and converting learning into forecast improvements.
Demonstrated
developing and managing forecasts across multiple SKUs, categories, customers and/or channels.
using statistical forecasting and analysing forecast accuracy and bias.
participating in S&OP/IBP and consensus demand planning processes.
Minimum 4–6 years of relevant
in Demand Planning, Forecasting, Sales & Operations Planning, Supply Chain Planning or a closely related FMCG commercial/supply-chain function.
working with ERP/demand planning systems and large datasetsKey Responsiblities
working with Sales and Marketing to incorporate commercial intelligence, promotions, launches and market events into the demand plan.
Skills & Competencies:
Technical Skills:
Understanding of Demand Plan Accuracy, Forecast Bias, Forecast Value Added and forecast error analysis.
Proficiency in ERP/Demand Planning systems (e.g. SAP) and advanced Excel.
Strong knowledge of demand planning, forecasting, statistical forecasting and demand management principles.
with data analytics, forecasting and reporting tools, preferably Power BI or equivalent.
Strong understanding of FMCG demand drivers including seasonality, promotions, pricing, distribution, product lifecycle and customer behaviour.
Understanding of IBP/S&OP, Consensus Demand Planning and cross-functional alignment processes.
Soft Skills:
Effective communication and collaboration skills.
Attention to detail and proactive decision-making.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
How to Apply
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